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Old 03-01-2017, 06:33 PM
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Has anyone ever replaced the oem boots with these replacement units? The material is a harder plastic rather than the factory rubber. I'm going to replace my boots while I have the suspension pulled apart as they are on their way out and I'm just curious about the quality of these GKN units as changing the boots is just enough of a PITA to do correctly the first time.

2005 BMW X5 4.8is Sport Utility - Axles, Bearings & Differential - Page 2
Can't speak for boots only but I recently replaced whole left side assembly with GKN. It was $199 when I got it and the reason I went with whole assembly vs boot only was the fact that PO replaced right side with whole assembly as well. Made in Spain and it looked very high quality and identical to OEM:
http://www.autohausaz.com/search/pro...20Axle%20Shaft
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